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Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life
Annebella Pollen
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Description for Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life
Hardcover. As the first book to examine these ambitious and participatory photographic phenomena, Mass Photography makes a valuable contribution to photographic history and theory by taking a fresh look at amateur practice on an unprecedented scale. Series: International Library of Visual Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 bw integrated, 8pp colour plates. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish communities and create visual time capsules for the future. Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life assesses the potential of these popular moment-in-time projects by examining their current day prevalence and their historical predecessors. Through archival research and interviews with organisers and participants, it examines, for the first time, the vast photographic collections resulting from such projects, analysing their structures and systems, their aims and objectives, and their claims and promises. ... Read more
With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before. Such projects often seek to secure a snapshot of a single day in order to establish communities and create visual time capsules for the future. Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life assesses the potential of these popular moment-in-time projects by examining their current day prevalence and their historical predecessors. Through archival research and interviews with organisers and participants, it examines, for the first time, the vast photographic collections resulting from such projects, analysing their structures and systems, their aims and objectives, and their claims and promises. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
International Library of Visual Culture
Condition
New
Weight
612g
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784530112
SKU
V9781784530112
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About Annebella Pollen
Annebella Pollen is Principal Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK.
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